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Michael Ferro stepped down from the board of Tronc on Monday, hours before Fortune published a story online accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior toward two women while in his previous role as head of a Chicago investment firm. Ferro had been chairman of Tronc’s board since February 2016,...

A man was shot in the leg in the Little Village neighborhood Monday afternoon, police said. The man, age 27, was shot in the right leg about 3:55 p.m. in the 2700 block of West 25th Street, according to a police media notification. The man went in a private vehicle to St. Anthony Hospital, where...

Clashing attorneys on the first day of a murder trial Monday both described Betty Howard, a special education teacher fatally shot four years ago in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, as “a pillar of the community.” The agreement ended there, though. In opening statements, Assistant State’s Attorney...

An Aurora man got 31 years shaved off his sentence for a 2009 shooting in Oswego that killed an East Aurora High School soccer player and injured a Montgomery teen. Kendall County Judge Timothy McCann on Friday resentenced Zachary Reyes, who once lived on the 500 block of Webster Street in Aurora...

After acing an aptitude test three years ago, veteran Chicago police Officer Maureen Bresnahan thought she was well-positioned for a promotion to the department’s elite Bomb Squad, even though the 11-member unit hadn’t included a woman for years. But her superiors had other ideas, a federal lawsuit...

Two people were killed following a head-on collision on the 9th Street bridge in Lockport, shutting it down for a few hours Monday afternoon, according to the Illinois State Police. The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. when the driver of an eastbound Chevy Suburban crossed into the westbound lanes,...

I called WKGN-AM midday host Cody McClure — the Knoxville, Tenn., sports-talker who tweeted a four-letter insult at Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt — hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I wanted to at least give a so-called professional a chance to defend an outburst I considered unprofessional,...

A DuPage County judge has rejected a request that details be kept under wraps in the case of a former Schaumburg police officer who confessed to operating a drug ring but now wants his conviction tossed out. Matthew Hudak is seeking to have his 2014 guilty plea overturned after prosecutors abruptly...

An unidentified male was killed in a fiery crash at 2:15 a.m. Monday on Burrville Road in Crete Township, according to the Will County coroner's office. The victim was driving eastbound on Burrville about a quarter mile east of Cedar Lane when he left the roadway and struck an object, causing the...

The Aurora Police Department doesn't have to let an officer fired over hidden cameras return to work while his case plays out in circuit court, according to a Kane County judge. Kane County Circuit Judge David Akemann on Friday denied the police union's request to uphold an arbitrator's ruling,...

A man who was the subject of a 2014 Hammond traffic stop that made national news is set to go to trial late this summer. Cellphone video circulated online after Jamal Jones and his girlfriend, Lisa Mahone, along with a 14-year-old and 7-year-old in the back seat, were stopped Sept. 25, 2014, at...

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide Democratic and Republican nominees for the November general election, after a final day of campaigning saw candidates for governor, attorney general and Congress fan out across Illinois. Precinct polling places are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., and a preliminary...

Ald. Brendan Reilly would doubtless hate the comparison, but one thing he has in common with President Donald Trump is a readiness to lob bombs on Twitter. While most of his City Council colleagues play it safe (and dull) on social media, the 42nd Ward alderman lets it all hang out, often going...

Police recovered a car Monday afternoon in the Rogers Park neighborhood that was wanted in connection with 15 armed robberies overnight across the North and Northwest sides, according to Chicago police. Officers from the Rogers Park district recovered the car Monday afternoon in the 7600 block...

When the Obama Presidential Center opens in about three years, visitors can get to it by car, Metra, bike or bus, but not by that most iconic form of Chicago transportation — the “L.” That’s because a Green Line branch that would have led right to the center was torn down in 1997, after some community...

The Rev. C. Frank Phillips, founder of a religious order of men and pastor at the storied St. John Cantius Catholic Parish, was removed last week by the Archdiocese of Chicago amid an investigation into allegations of improper conduct with adult men, according to church officials. In a statement...

Darnell Simmons, a longtime city worker, was walking out of a West Side store with his teenage son and another boy when gunfire erupted. Simmons pushed his son out of the way and then fell to the ground, according to an account from the teen relayed through Simmons’ cousin, Dedrick Wilborn. “He...

The Lake County coroner’s office identified a man found by hikers Sunday in a wooded area near Mundelein as 76-year-old Dale F. Kropke, missing since March 4 from his Round Lake Park home.Coroner Dr. Howard Cooper said the investigation into the exact circumstances of Kropke’s death is ongoing.“Preliminary...

Three people have been released from Skokie police custody without any charges being filed after report of an attempted armed robbery Friday where a man crashed his vehicle and reported being shot at, according to Skokie police. Officer Eric Swaback said Monday that the Cook County State's Attorney's...

The gun used to kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in a gang-related ambush in 2015 was shipped to Chicago as part of a weapons trafficking scheme run by a brother of one of the alleged killers, federal prosecutors revealed in court Monday. Anthony Morgan, 31, was charged last week with trafficking eight...

Police are investigating several suspicious notes found Monday morning at two Glen Ellyn schools that prompted one of the schools to cancel classes for the day. In a news release, Glen Ellyn police said the notes were found at St. Petronille Catholic School, 425 Prospect Ave., and at Glenbard West...

A Matteson couple died Sunday night after their vehicle became submerged in a retention pond at Laraway Road and Tower Lane, near the McDonald's Restaurant, in New Lenox, officials said. Gregory Real, 68, and his wife, Lana Real, 69, were pronounced dead at 7:36 p.m. and 10:32 p.m., respectively,...

Amazon is heading to Chicago this week to scout potential sites for its second headquarters, renewing speculation about the city’s odds of landing the $5 billion project that could eventually bring 50,000 high-paying jobs. Among those keeping a close eye on the public handicapping of the city’s...

A fatal shooting on the West Side over the weekend was the 100th homicide of the year in Chicago, a milestone reached nearly a month later than the last two years, according to data kept by the Tribune. A 36-year-old man was sitting in a car in the 5400 block of West Division Street in South Austin...

Like Chicago’s downtown on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, a river of green has flowed through TV sets ahead of Tuesday’s primary vote, as governor candidates have spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising during the long campaign.

When we last left the kingdom of Wauconda, its doors were opening to the world, and its rulers were explaining, to anyone who listened, that they no longer stood in the shadows. Disguised for too long as a modest village hidden by forest preserves, tall grasses and lakes, with seemingly little...

Hikers found the body of a man Sunday outside Mundelein in a totaled car, the same make and model as that of a Round Lake Park man reported missing two weeks ago. The identity of the man had yet to be released as of Sunday evening by the Lake County Coroner's Office, but the vehicle description...

On a recent evening, state Rep. Dan Burke stood in the sun-kissed living room of Mary Anne Turner’s brick bungalow on South Mulligan Street and listened for 19 minutes as the longtime resident described a rat infestation on her block. For the first time, she won’t be planting peppers and tomatoes...

Police are asking for the public's help finding an 81-year-old man who went missing from the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side on Sunday, authorities said. Woodrow Slaughter was last seen in the 3800 block of South King Drive wearing a Ralph Lauren Polo hat, a green jacket and blue jeans,...

Police were investigating two robberies in the Lincoln Park area this month, authorities said. In both North Side robberies, a man approached the victims from behind, placed a hard object in their back implying a weapon and demanded money before running away, police said. The most recent robbery...

Chicago police are investigating two armed robberies of businesses in the Near North Side area that are believed to be carried out by the same man, according to authorities. Surveillance videos showed the same robber hit two small businesses since late January, police said in an alert. The most...

Two men were killed and two others were wounded in separate shootings since late Sunday afternoon, authorities said. In the most recent homicide, a man was shot in the back while sitting in a parked vehicle on the North Side about 8:45 p.m., police said. The man, 36, was in the 5400 block of West...

Charges were pending against a man after the SWAT team responded to a domestic disturbance in the Southwest Side's West Lawn neighborhood on Sunday night, authorities said. SWAT officers heard a gunshot coming from the second floor of a residence after making entry on the ground level of the building...

A woman found dead in the West Woodlawn neighborhood Saturday afternoon died from strangulation in a homicide, authorities determined Sunday. The woman, who had not been identified by Sunday afternoon, died in a strangulation and her death was ruled a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s...

Two cousins shot, one fatally, in the Englewood neighborhood late Saturday were among at least nine people shot in Chicago from about 8 p.m. Saturday to about 8 a.m. Sunday. The two men were driving in a Chevrolet Equinox, heading south in the 4900 block of Ashland Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Saturday....

Raymond Gadke assisted several generations of researchers and students in his oversight of University of Chicago Library’s microforms department and later of its periodical collections and all its reading room collections. A scholar himself who had a master’s degree in history from the U. of C.,...

After searching for a man accused of touching strangers on "L" platforms, Chicago police this weekend released the man into a medical facility for an evaluation. As of Friday the man, 19, was wanted for questioning, and police distributed his photo in an effort to locate and question him. By Saturday,...

Wisconsin voters will decide April 3 whether to eliminate the office of state treasurer. The little-known position, which dates to Wisconsin's territorial days 180 years ago, is derided as unnecessary by Republican critics but defended as essential by those fighting to save it. The Legislature,...

Negotiated plea deals resolve significantly more felony cases than trials, and usually with less acrimony following the proceedings because both sides receive some benefits through the agreements. But in the controversial case of Thomas Rudd, the ex-Lake County coroner whose election-related felony...

One man was killed and another wounded in shootings Saturday evening on the South Side, authorities said. Most recently, a 28-year-old man was shot multiples times in the 8200 block of South Elizabeth Street around 5:40 p.m. and died about an hour later, authorities said. The man was taken in critical...

A multiple-vehicle car crash sent nine people, including four children, to hospitals Saturday evening in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Four vehicles collided at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Kostner Avenue about 7:30 p.m., said Chicago Fire Deptartment Chief Oscar Schroeder....

Three people were killed and four others were wounded in shootings in Chicago on Friday and early Saturday, including a teenage boy whose car crashed on the Eisenhower Expressway after he was fatally shot on the Near West Side. In that case, a 17-year-old boy was in a Pontiac Grand Prix waiting...

The south suburban man who was the subject of an Amber Alert earlier this week for allegedly kidnapping two children after fatally shooting his estranged wife had followed the woman to a bar and then to a gas station where he shot her, prosecutors said Saturday. Lynn Washington said nothing at...

An Austin neighborhood man was ordered held on $100,000 bail for allegedly attacking three CTA employees at a West Side transit facility early Friday morning. A bus driver in full uniform noticed Trevell Grier walking inside a portion of the facility in the 300 block of South Kedzie Avenue, Cook...

A 24-year-old man has died after falling from a high-rise building in the Loop Saturday evening. It happened about 6:10 p.m. in the 200 block of North Dearborn Street, according to police. The victim, a 24-year-old man, was dead on the scene, according to police and a Chicago Fire Department...

Friends and family of Lakisha Roby, 27, held a vigil Saturday near the Markham gas station where police said she was killed by her estranged husband earlier in the week. Pastor Donovan Price offered up a prayer the vigil on behalf of Roby’s family. “Dear Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to...

Four men shot inside a strip club in Harvey were rushed to area hospitals, all in critical condition, early Saturday morning, according to city spokesman Sean Howard. He said a man managed to sneak a gun past security and shoot four people inside The Boxxx Gentlemen’s Club, 16700 S. Halsted St.,...

Political candidates for governor on down the ballot engaged in the election-year ritual of marching in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday, shaking hands and jockeying for the attention of TV cameras just days away from Tuesday’s primary election. Prior to hitting the parade route...

A Metra passenger was taken to a hospital after being stabbed aboard a train nearing Union Station on Saturday morning. The victim was in the vestibule of an inbound Metra North Line train about 10:30 a.m. when five men tried to rob him, and during that incident, he was stabbed with an unknown...

A judge Saturday denied bail for a man accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife and taking off with the couple’s two young children, sparking an Amber Alert, police said. Lynn Washington, 40, appeared for a hearing in before Judge Fred Lyke Jr., who denied bail at the Leighton Criminal Court...

A man who was suspected in at least ten batteries on the Red Line downtown being questioned, Chicago police said. Friday, police released photos of the suspect who was wanted for questioning in several incidents. Most recently, a 15-year-old girl on her way to school was on the subway platform...

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said a Beach Park man is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl. In a release from the sheriff’s office, police said Edmundo Aboytes, 87, of the 9900 block of Oak Forest Avenue was arrested March 15 in connection with the predatory criminal...

A police vehicle was involved in a crash while driving to a shooting, police said, leaving five people injured, including two officers. The crash happened around 2:40 a.m. in the 7800 block of South Phillips Avenue in the South Side’s South Shore neighborhood, less than half a mile from the scene...

Instead of coming straight home from work on Friday evening, Charles Baron went to his cousin’s house to play video games. He was relieved he switched up his routine. A 39-year-old man, identified as Jeraun McRae, of the 7800 block of South Indiana Avenue, was shot and killed on the sidewalk in...

Democratic state Sen. Ira Silverstein, the only member of the General Assembly to have been publicly accused of sexual harassment in the #MeToo movement that’s swept through Springfield, faces the fight of his political life on Tuesday. Fallout from the accusation led to his first primary election...

A former staffer for State Rep. Litesa Wallace — the running mate of Democratic governor candidate Daniel Biss — says Wallace ignored her sexual harassment complaint involving a community leader and then retaliated against her for making the accusation. The woman’s complaint closely resembles one...

The March for Our Lives Chicago rally, which will coincide with gatherings March 24 in Washington, D.C., and other cities, has been tentatively booked for Union Park and could bring in as many as 30,000 young people calling for gun reform, organizers said Friday. While the rally at the nation’s...

Six people were arrested on prostitution charges Thursday at a Naperville apartment building, police said. Five women and one man were taken into custody in the 1300 block of Crab Apple Court following an investigation into online posts offering sexual services conducted by the Naperville Police...

An estimated 1,100 students at Downers Grove North and South high schools will serve one hour of detention for walking out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence, a walkout conducted nationwide in support of students and teachers killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at a Florida high school. The...

A 40-year-old Aurora man entered into a plea deal Friday with Kane County prosecutors, agreeing to spend up to 16-and-a-half years in prison for his actions related to the kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Clarence King after a 2016 fight on the city's East Side. Anthony Bills, 40, of the 700...

More than 5,600 of Studs Terkel's radio interview programs on the Chicago station WFMT will be released to the public. The Studs Terkel Radio Archive will launch May 16, the 106th birthday of the late author, activist and oral historian. Terkel died in 2008 at age 96. The archive will be available...

A Bellwood man who murdered an off-duty Cook County sheriff’s investigator outside a Christmas party at a VFW hall in 2013 was sentenced Friday to 65 years in prison. Judge Paula Daleo imposed the punishment on Brandon Jackson, 27, who was convicted in January of first-degree murder and attempted...

A 52-year-old man was in court Friday afternoon accused of sexually abusing a Kennedy-King college student in December. Judge Sophia Atcherson set bail at $50,000 for Eduardo Barrios, 52, who was charged with criminal sexual abuse. The victim, a 20-year-old man who is a student at the Englewood...

Bribery and extortion charges against Ald. Willie Cochran should be dismissed because the alleged victims initially denied they were pressured by the alderman to make any payments in exchange for official acts, Cochran’s lawyer said Friday in a court filing. In fact, it was the FBI that put pressure...

A former Wheaton College football player is suing the school and seven ex-teammates, alleging campus officials knew about the team’s hazing tradition and did nothing to prevent an attack in which the player said he was kidnapped, beaten and left half-naked on a baseball field. The lawsuit, filed...

Hobart police are investigating the death of a woman reported missing out of Jasper County as a homicide, officials said. "We do have a person of interest in custody, but he hasn't been formally charged," Lt. James Gonzales, Hobart police spokesman, said in an email Friday. April Lynn Salazar-Bernal,...

A man is in custody after a woman was shot Friday morning inside a Gary flea market, a spokesman said. The woman, who was shot at Market City Flea Market in the 4100 block of Cleveland Street, was being treated at a local hospital, Emiliano Perez, of the Lake County Sheriff's Department, said in...

Admit it — at this point in the Illinois primary season, you’ve probably seen enough campaign mailers. Seasoned politicos know it. So they’ve come up with a new trick to get past your instinct to immediately trash any mail that looks like it’s seeking your vote: handwritten, personalized letters....

Former Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy plans to announce next week that he will run for mayor in 2019, a source close to his campaign said. The announcement making it official will come via a video, the source said. The former top cop has been inching toward entering politics for months....

A 20-year-old man has been charged in a fatal shooting that happened almost two years ago in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said. John Montgomery was charged with first-degree murder in the March 22 fatal shooting of 27-year-old Jarvis Coleman, officials said. At a...

Most of the leading Democrats in the crowded field running to take on veteran Republican lawmaker Peter Roskam of Wheaton have made personal health crises central to their campaigns, seizing his longtime opposition to the Affordable Care Act in what they see as a rare shot at flipping a suburban...

Six people have been wounded in shootings Thursday and early Friday, including a man who was shot while delivering food on the South Side, according to Chicago police. Most recently a woman was shot while she was with her boyfriend about 6:50 a.m. in the 2400 block of South Whipple Street in the...

The two Republican candidates for DuPage County sheriff have a lot in common. Both have years of experience working for the office. Both want to end the opioid epidemic and improve school safety. And both are longtime Republican committeemen with political connections. But only Undersheriff Frank...

One of the U.S. Marshals Service's most wanted was arrested Thursday evening in Gary by state police after two decades on the run, a spokeswoman said. Andre R. Brunt, 43, was wanted on multiple outstanding warrants from various agencies, including armed robbery, felon in possession of a firearm,...

Apple will make an education-focused announcement in Chicago March 27 at Lane Tech High School. The iPhone maker typically holds its product announcements in California, at its campus in Cupertino, or at nearby convention centers, making this an unusual event. Its last education-related event took...

The hottest Cook County contest on Tuesday’s ballot is for the typically low-profile office of assessor — a race where the contrasts between the two leading candidates are stark, and the stakes for taxpayers and the political establishment are high. Joe Berrios, who’s seeking a third term, is an...

In the first effort to measure the cost of Cook County’s error-ridden assessment system under Assessor Joseph Berrios, a new study estimates that at least $2.2 billion in property taxes was shifted from undervalued Chicago homes onto overvalued ones between 2011 and 2015. Because the county’s assessment...